Tuesday, September 16, 2008

I don't know what else I can say about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, except that she is vindictive, corrupt, dishonest, and especially petty. And all the time, she hides under this image of a Hockey Mom / Mrs Smith Goes to Washington. However, the news reports coming out on the Troopergate scandal shows what a fraud Palin really is.

Lawmakers sue to stop Palin Troopergate scandal:Time.com is reporting that five state Republican lawmakers are asking an Anchorage Superior Court judge to stop the investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of a public safety commissioner. I'm starting to wonder if these state Republican lawmakers have been talking to the McCain campaign in trying to stuff the Troopergate investigation.

Sarah Palin will never attend any press conferences, and will never answer questions to reporters before, or after, McCain-controlled campaign events. According to the AP story:

Since departing Alaska on Saturday for her first solo campaign trip, Palin has spoken before two rallies and appeared at a fundraiser.

After a speech in Carson City, Nev., on Saturday, she flew to Denver and made no public appearances on Sunday. She spoke in Colorado on Monday morning, then held her first solo fundraiser later in the day in Ohio. One scheduled interview was postponed due to storm-related damage. She has refused to answer shouted questions about issues ranging from the economy to the home-state investigation.

Aides keep reporters well away from her when she is campaigning, and also protect her privacy aboard her chartered campaign plane by pulling a curtain across the center aisle to separate the Palins and her top aides from the rest of the passengers.

The McCain campaign is completely hiding Sarah Palin, making her into a Toy Poodle to perform in John McCain's dog and pony show.

Of course, The Washington Post has published emails showing that Palin had written to Monegan, expressing frustration that Monegan would not fire Palin's brother-in-law, who was the Alaskan state trooper involved in a divorce with Palin's sister.

McCain's campaign insists the investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan has been hijacked by Democrats. The campaign says it can prove Monegan was fired in July because of insubordination on budget issues, and not because he refused to fire a state trooper who went through a nasty divorce from Palin's sister.

To that end, the campaign released a series of e-mails detailing the frustration several Palin administration officials experienced in dealing with Monegan. The "last straw," the campaign said, was a trip Monegan planned to Washington in July to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases.

In a July 7 e-mail, John Katz, the governor's special counsel, noted two problems with the trip: the governor hadn't agreed the money should be sought, and the request "is out of sequence with our other appropriations requests and could put a strain on the evolving relationship between the Governor and Sen. Stevens."

On Monday afternoon Gov. Palin and her entourage tooled through neighborhoods still without power in storm-stricken Stark County, Ohio, where she attended a fundraiser at the Brookside Country Club.

The governor’s first “funder” raised just under $1 million. Gov. Palin raised questions among the traveling press — confined under police guard for most of her three-hour visit inside a club boardroom — by telling her patrons the Tricky Tale of the Teleprompter Triumph.

As recorded by a reporter allowed to observe the 35-minute fundraiser appearance, this was the first time Gov. Palin herself relayed the story of how a fouled-up teleprompter forced her to ad-lib big swaths of her acclaimed acceptance speech at the Republican Convention Sept. 3.

But that story has been largely debunked. Reporters who saw the equipment that night say –and the party has not denied — that any teleprompter issue was minor at most. In the days after the event it was touted — on a hush-hush, off the record basis — by top Republicans as a way to show how swift-thinking is their newest star, despite her avoidance of any and all unscripted moments on the trail.

Gov. Palin’s telling was a Canton crowd-pleaser: “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me. The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me,” she said. “It was Ohio.”

Sarah Palin has lied repeatedly about the Bridge to Nowhere. Sarah Palin has lied about the federal earmarks. She has lied about firing Walt Monegan. She and John McCain have lied about selling the jet on eBay. The McCain campaign has lied about Sarah Palin being in Iraq. Lies after lies after lies. Given the McCain campaign's penchant for lying about everying--big and small--why should we believe anything that comes out of Sarah Palin's mouth?